Alsup wrote that it is “plausible” that President Trump ended the program for racial reasons, Politico reported.

“Circumstantial evidence of intent, including statements by a decisionmaker, may be considered in evaluating whether government action was motivated by a discriminatory purpose,” Alsup wrote on Friday. “These statements were not about the rescission (which came later) but they still have relevance to show racial animus against people south of our border.”

DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, has protected about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families who overstayed visas. The program includes hundreds of thousands of college-age students.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Wednesday that the ruling was “outrageous, especially in light of the president’s successful bipartisan meeting with House and Senate members at the White House on the same day.”

The Times’ report said the U.S. Supreme Court might address the issue of these injunctions.

Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, told the paper, “The justices don’t like the district courts changing national policy overnight.”